The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-07-05
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D1lOTU. OF the CdQaQlaQ racine, du-
nouncing that the China steamers
viii call at Victoria on their inward
and outward voyages. This quiets
the indignation felt in this city over
the Abyssinia not calling. The
steamer will complete coaling at De-
psrture Bay, but arrangements are
being made for steamships to coal at
Esquimault, where bunkers will be
put up.
VANCOUVER, June 16.-The Abys-
sinia will sail on Monday with full
cargo of merchandise and coal. Her
cabin accommodation is too small,
and is being enlarged, and will be
further extended at Hongkong. A
full list of passengers are waiting to
sail with her
The Canadian Pacific has given or
ders to finish the company's hotel
without delay. 1t will be ready for
occupation October 1st.
New YORK, June 16.-T. Boulanger,
Oh of the chief engineers of the
Panama Canal, talked regarding that
great undertaking before the Ameri-
oan Society of Civil Engineers last
Night Among other things, he said
that about 30,000,000 metres. of a total
of 100000 metres to be excavated,
have now been removed. He also
asserted that the company has only
money enough on hand to continue
the work for four months, and he
doubted if De Lesseps could raise
any more money for the company in
France. The death-rate among the
laborers was about 60 per cent. among
the colored workmen and so per cent.
among white laborers per annum
The company had great trouble in
obtaining workmen owing to this fact.
New York, June 16.-The new steel
sloop building at Wilmington, Del,
for General Paine, is expected to be
ready to launch in about two weeks.
Paine hopes to have the new boat
ready to join the New York Yacht
Club feet on its annual cruise to begin
at New London, August Sd. As com
pared with the Mayfower, she Is
three and three quarter inches longer
on the water line, has two and one
half inches less beam, and viii draw
one foot more water, while the area
of the midship section, Sc square
feet, is I6 feet greater. Unlike the
Mayfower, she will have clipper
stern, fuller bilge and straighter free
board. Yachtmen are almost unani-
nous in the belief that the Americas
idea is to be put to the very test in it
struggle against the American-Scot
fish combination as evolved in the
Thistle, and there are not wanting
those who feel our only chance of re
tanning the America Cup rests upon
the abilities of the new sloop.
CHICAGO, June 1.-THE steamer
Champlain was burned last night off
Charlevoix, Mich. The boat was run
ming ten miles an hour when flames
suddenly shot up beneath the engine,
driving the engineer from his post
with his clothes on fire. The alarm
was given and the sleeping passengers
aroused, and in ten minutes from the
time the fire caught, the passengers
were az. compelled to jump into the
lake. there were fifty-seven persons
on board, including the crew. Of this
number twenty are known to have
been drowned and seven unaccounted
for. Those saved foated for an hour
and a half, when they were rescued
by yawl and fish boats from shore.
Several of the saved were! badly
burned. Seven bodies have already
been recovered. The Champlain was
valued at about $4,000.
New York, June 18.-The following
letter was sent to the Secretary of War
by the President to-day, in regard to
the disposition of the flags captured
by the Union forces during the late
war:
sIhave to-day considered with more
care then when the subject was orally
presented to me, the action of your
Department directing letters to be adj
dressed to the Governors of all the
States, offering to return, if desired,
to the loyal States the Union flags
captured during the War of the Re
bellion by the Confederate forces, and
A afterwards recovered by Government
troops, and to the Confederate States
the flags captured by the Union forces,
all of which, for many years, have
been packed in boxes and stored in
the cellar and attic of the War De
partment. am of the opinion that
the return of the flags in the manner
thus contemplated is not authorized
by existing law, nor justified as an
Executive act. [ request, therefore,
that no further steps be taken in the
matter except to examine and invent
DRY these flags, and adopt proper
measures for their preservation. Any
direction as to the final disposition of
them should originate with Congress.
Yours truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND"
VANCOUVER, B. G. June 1S.-Profes
sor David z. Todd, Director of Am
herst College Observatory in Chicago
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